Last week Entercom announced it will pay $9 million for San Jose’s “K-Fox” KUFX (98.5), and now it says it’s dropping the classical format on its own KDFC, San Francisco at 102.1 and simulcasting K-Fox there as a "classic rock superstation." That begins Monday, January 24. The new home of classical in the Bay Area: A newly-linked non-com simulcast of the current adult alternative KUSF (90.3) and Santa Rosa-market Christian “Candle” KNDL, Angwin (89.9). KUSF abruptly went dark at 10am Tuesday morning (website is here), and "Candle" is also now silent. A new not-for-profit venture owned by the University of Southern California, named Classical Public Radio Network, will acquire the intellectual property of classical KDFC from Entercom and install it on KUSF (now owned by the University of San Francisco) and KNDL (owned by Howell Mountain Broadcasting). The KUSF/90.3 signal is being sold for $3,750,000 in a deal brokered by Greg Guy of Patrick Communications. The school says it will use the proceeds "to support its mission" and will now focus on "the primary purpose as a teaching laboratory for students." It's offering to retain its current staff in similar positions, though the site (here) may be dark for a few days due to engineering work. The purchase of the other non-commercial station, the former "Candle" KNDL, was brokered by Kalil & Co. The San Francisco Board of Radio-Info.com has plenty to say about the changes and how they were handled, here.

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